The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-20
the judge laughed and looked happier than before.


MI Grady continued:
Mr.. Riordan was an anti-prohibitionist in the last
race He came into Colonel Maddox ofiice-by the
way, Colonel Maddox's Office seems to be sort of a
place for them to come. Mr.. Riordan says: ~ was
an anti-prohibtionist on principle" A personal
liberty man. suppose-"but work from 60 to 100
men, and have seen change that, as an honest
man, loving my fellow man, dare not disregard,
and am for prohibition"
Ladies and gentlemen, how can you answer such
as that? / am not profound lawyer. ] don't know
how much personal liberty have got; sometimes z
wish had more looking with a smile at Mrs Grady,
who sat in the audience that is purely personal
matter TO which we need not allude furtherI don't
want any profound knowledge Of law that clouds
my brain and judgment when such facts appeal 10
me.
Colonel Maddox did not vote in the last election
until the last moment. He believed prohibition
impractlcable and visionary He might have had
the personal liberty touch. lie was not going to
VOTE and his wife said-and the wife is nearly al
ways the best half of the two and is in this case.
His wife said: "My dear, you vote today; we have
q boy"
He voted under protest he did not believe in itit
was new tangled. Six months afterwards he was
sorry he voted for it, looked like the town had gone
to ruin; but today he is wise and intelligent
man, and he has looked about him and heard what
people say, and seen the town prosper and thrill
with goYth grander than she ever felt before, and
he is q dyedn-the-Wood prohibitionist
Mr.. Rucker was the same way, and is ready to
work night and day for prohibition.
Do 70 know ]. G. Allen? Those who do not are
behind He was anti-prohibitionist; he was 50
strong an antiprohibitions that he would not let
his brotherin-law-not his mother-in-law-talk to
him on the subject. He was rab-d. He did not
want 10 discuss it. He had a little dry goods store
next to a saloon. Prohibition voted in, and he
has prospered since in spite Of himself, which re-
minds me of distinguish ell Frenchman who was
kicked upstairs The saloon was vacated owing 10
circumstances over which the owner had no con-
troll. II did not look well vacant, and Mr.. Allen
rented it and where the old red-eye used 10 stand
he put up calico, and today he is doing splendid
business and people who used TO go there 10 buy
their body's falling and their souls damnation
70 there to buy ribbons and dresses for their wives
and little ones as good men onght to do.
seeing all this" / said, show can yon be an
autil" anil he says:
~ amt; have changed and am dry as
powder horn"
On Decatur street there were twenty-tbree bar.
rooms where there are now four winerooms in
what you might call the last extremites. All ex-
cept one are occupied by grocers drygoods stores,
boot and shoe shops, or by some sort Of business
that builds up in place Of traffic that tears
him down. Where is the paralysis Of business?
-Four saloons ard nineteen stores doing business in
place Of twcnty.three barrooms
have told you in getting evidence Of improve
Inent or deie1f4Otal on III CITY th4t you must 20
h the working classes Especially is this true Of
Atlanta, because this Is the third city in the United
States IN the proportion Of workers 70 Population.
Lawrence, Mass, leads with 81 per cent Of her
population wage earcrs, Lowell follows with 20
per cent, and Atlanta and Fall River tie for thiil
place with Il per cent.
Now here is a class Of people representing IN the
workers u our nuntcr foryacyen per cent. Of the
entire population. Add tie women and children
WHO do not work, and sc gee this class represents
sixty of seventy per cent Of cur population. II
have sho~n that 'Ils class is haucai.cI o. an uu-
speata1'c IaanIel by tAe uuigied experiment Of
Ir51ibion, IS itnat or duty 90 continue this ex-
pertinent tia the creates; good may como 10 the
greatest number.
zone minute further said 81. Grady, looking 1t
his watch. lCtcs % 90 On, 60 onl There Is just
one thing further wat ham b, II done? II II
has done harla. let US zee what They said We were
going D. g ruined. that bats AMI owls would ay IN
ana out and the real estate men have TO renting
Of nine out Of ten houses that rented They tes
tify without break, absolutely without q break,
that they have fewer houses their ligs than they